Parsley has a beneficial effect on the body, is rich in vitamins and minerals. With it, your dishes will become tastier, more appetizing and more aromatic. To keep fresh parsley on your table all year round, you can grow it at home on a windowsill.
Consider the option when the parsley on the windowsill is grown from seeds. Choose varieties rich in greens: Curly, Yielding, Sugar, Prima.
Seed parsley is not difficult to grow. These greens are not whimsical. You can get the first harvest about a month and a half after sowing the parsley. At the same time, it will bring fresh greens for more than a year.
How to sow parsley
- Place the seeds in a container of water the day before sowing. This is done so that essential oils that interfere with rapid emergence evaporate.
- Two to three hours before planting, dip the parsley seeds in a weak solution of potassium permanganate
- There must be a hole in the growing container for excess moisture to escape. A drainage layer must also be provided.
- Deepen the seeds into the soil no more than half a centimeter. The layer of earth on top should be about one centimeter.
- Place the seedling pot in a dark place.
- Water the planted parsley every other day.
- When the first greens appear, move the container with parsley to the windowsill.
- Now you need to thin out the seedlings. Leave a distance of four centimeters between the bushes.
In summer, abundant watering is required, and in winter, moderate. Parsley is capable of producing greens at any time of the year. You will have your harvest all year round and be sure that it is grown absolutely free of chemicals and harmful additives.
